madpiano
Well-Known Member
the trouble is, Ecxzema is kind of a range of things and everyone is different. Some is stress related, it could be an allergy to something eaten, something in the air or something in the washing powder. It could be just dry skin, it coud be an infection it could be fungal. I have a feeling that docs like to classify any itchy skin reaction as exczema and be done with it, especially in the under 5s.
I know what helped my daughter, but it may not work on your kids at all. My daughter's exczema got worse, every time we used any form of heavy oils or anything oily actually, no matter if animal, vegetable or mineral oil based. Even oil baths were driving her nuts and made her condition worse. We used a combination of Aloe Gel and anti-histamines (in stick and tablet form) and it cleared up.
She was fine with most washing powders (with or without enzymes, there was never a difference), just one or two made her itch, I guess allergic to the perfume-combo. Milk, Wheat, Lanolin all made no difference, she doesn't like nuts, so never tried them. Her condition is related to Hayfever though. During the worst Hayfever Months she still breaks out in Exczema, even though she has otherwise outgrown it and doesn't even have dry skin. She gets it in all creases (knees, ellbows, neck etc). It lasts about 3 weeks and then she is fine again for the rest of the year. Doc still refuses to do a pollen test as apparently thats impossible....She doesn't have hayfever so we just buy over the counter anti histamines and are done with it...
But again, no idea if any of that is useful for your child. They could be reacting to something completely different and they may outgrow it one day or it could get worse during puberty...weird stuff this exczema...
I know what helped my daughter, but it may not work on your kids at all. My daughter's exczema got worse, every time we used any form of heavy oils or anything oily actually, no matter if animal, vegetable or mineral oil based. Even oil baths were driving her nuts and made her condition worse. We used a combination of Aloe Gel and anti-histamines (in stick and tablet form) and it cleared up.
She was fine with most washing powders (with or without enzymes, there was never a difference), just one or two made her itch, I guess allergic to the perfume-combo. Milk, Wheat, Lanolin all made no difference, she doesn't like nuts, so never tried them. Her condition is related to Hayfever though. During the worst Hayfever Months she still breaks out in Exczema, even though she has otherwise outgrown it and doesn't even have dry skin. She gets it in all creases (knees, ellbows, neck etc). It lasts about 3 weeks and then she is fine again for the rest of the year. Doc still refuses to do a pollen test as apparently thats impossible....She doesn't have hayfever so we just buy over the counter anti histamines and are done with it...
But again, no idea if any of that is useful for your child. They could be reacting to something completely different and they may outgrow it one day or it could get worse during puberty...weird stuff this exczema...
